> The GNU licenses define "source code" as "the preferred form of the work > for making modifications to it". I think it is quite important for our > future liberty that we hold to this definition and not accept a weaker > one.
You are absolutely right in that regard and should we be completely honest with ourselves about the trusting trust attack, we must admit that unless a human takes the time to manually write a replacement, we gain very little trust in auditing the new machine generated versions of this file. But as always the question becomes, who will be the one to do it?
